RACC WEB 115 Class #7 Lecture
Finish Ch. 3 Lecture
Creating buttons and rollovers
- It is wise to use symbols as buttons for increased consistency throughout your web pages and web sites. A Fireworks symbol is stored in the document's Library.
- Use the Edit/Insert/New Button menu command to bring up the Button Editor which allows you to create a button with up and over states.
- Carefully export a button keeping track of its corresponding HTML along with its various images (up and over states).
- You can also create the up and over state images for a button without using button symbols in Fireworks. Simply create an up state graphic and then duplicate that frame. In the second frame (the over state), change some aspect of the graphic. Then export each frame separately using the File/Export or File/Export Preview menu command. Be careful to name these two gif images appropriately. Then, use the Insert/Interactive Images/Rollover Image menu command in Dreamweaver to actually add the rollover to a web page. Follow this guide for using this method to create rollovers.
(if time) Test our logons & passwords to the RACC stuwebsrv server. Go to My Network Places/Entire Network/Microsoft Windows Network/Workgroup/stuwebsrv . Arthur, what is my password and do I have permissions to create folders?
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